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"If when Aaron and Mariam spoke against Moses, they instantly experienced the punishment of God, coming in defense of His servant, how much more will anyone of you be punished by divine judgment if, with viperous lips, he slanders his Bishop." — St. Jerome…
"Do not, then, pay attention to God alone. You are also indebted to your superiors and to your brothers. God does not wish you to treat as worthless those to whom he attributes great worth."
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
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"For just as dipped bread is stained and has changed in appearance so also a pretender, for he thinks one thing in his heart while he simulates something else with his words. And Judas was like this, for on the outside he pretended to love the Teacher, but in his heart he planned to betray him: the wicked speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts (Ps 28:3)."
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on John 13
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on John 13
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"For God's mercy towards us is the more wonderful that Christ died not for the righteous nor for the holy, but for the unrighteous and wicked; and though the nature of the Godhead could not sustain the sting of death, yet at His birth He took from us that which He might offer for us... For by dying He underwent the laws of hell, but by rising again He broke them, and so destroyed the continuity of death as to make it temporal instead of eternal."
— Pope St. Leo the Great, On the Wednesday of Holy Week (Sermon LIX)
— Pope St. Leo the Great, On the Wednesday of Holy Week (Sermon LIX)
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Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: When Did Jesus Celebrate the Last Supper?
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"By the words of the Transubstantiation, what took place on Holy Thursday, Christ’s gift of self as nourishment for eternal life, takes place again — in a form which also outwardly resembles the Savior’s act on that holy night."
— Fr. Romano Guardini, Meditations Before Mass
— Fr. Romano Guardini, Meditations Before Mass
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"In the ancient rite of Communion, the priest said, 'The body of Jesus Christ,' and the faithful responded, 'Amen,' or 'so it is,' and 'The blood of Jesus Christ,' and the faithful responded, 'Amen,' 'so it is.' All has been accomplished. All has been said. All has been explained. I am silent. I believe. I adore."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
"An ordinary kind of passion is not sufficient, nor a private death, nor a regular kind of death, nor a death like any other death; the uniqueness of the Passion had to match the uniqueness of the Sufferer."
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72B)
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72B)
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"O holy Apostle Paul of Tarsus, from your glorious place in heaven, look down upon the race you loved so well. True it is that many of them remained deaf to your ringing words of truth, and that some of them even stirred up persecution against you and your fellow believers, but you were so devoted to your people that you willed to become a castaway for the sake of their conversion. Now that you are glorious in heaven, obtain for your brethren the grace of repentance and conversion, so that they may finally take their rightful place in the great family of the Catholic Church. AMEN."
— Prayer to St. Paul for the Conversion of the Jews
— Prayer to St. Paul for the Conversion of the Jews
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"Forgiveness is beaten, Pardon is condemned, Majesty is mocked, Virtue is ridiculed; the Bestower of rain is drenched with spittle, the One who has arrayed the heavens is restrained by nails of iron, the Giver of honey is fed with gall, the One who makes springs of water flow is given vinegar to drink; and when there is no longer any punishment left, death takes cover, death hesitates, because it does not notice anything there that is its own."
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72B)
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72B)
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Prayer for the Conversion of the Jews:
"Let us pray also for the faithless Jews: that almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts; so that they too may acknowledge Jesus Christ our Lord. Almighty and eternal God, who dost not exclude from thy mercy even Jewish faithlessness: hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the light of thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."
"Let us pray also for the faithless Jews: that almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts; so that they too may acknowledge Jesus Christ our Lord. Almighty and eternal God, who dost not exclude from thy mercy even Jewish faithlessness: hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the light of thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."
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"Love is proved by adversities, the weight of affection is determined by the dangers endured, benevolence is tested by punishments, perfect charity is confirmed by death... So this is the first reason for the Lord’s Passion, whereby he wanted it to be known how much God loved humanity, since he wanted to be loved rather than feared."
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72B)
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72B)
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"Just as, when Christ was being born, conception did not follow its usual order, birth did not proceed according to custom, nature did not observe its own laws, so too at his death Tartarus lost those he was keeping under his sway, hell forfeited the prerogative of its age-old power, and death relinquished what had been guaranteed under the ancient law by decree of the new order."
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)
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"Christ went, but he never left the apostles; the Lord went to death, but he never departed from life; he descended into hell, but he was not absent from heaven, as he himself attests when he says: 'No one has ascended to heaven, except the One who has descended from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.'"
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)
— St. Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons (Volume 3, Sermon 72A)